On Monday, January 15, 2018 01:58:08 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:51:30PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Does the SMTP server encrypt both between it and the "client" and between > > it and the other end destination / source? > > No, not always. Plaintext SMTP is the default for transferring mail > from one server to another. Basically, you should just assume that > anything you send in an email is readable by the entire world, unless > you encrypt the actual message itself (PGP, GnuPG, etc.).
Ok, thanks. I guess that's what I expected, and that it could almost more accurately be phrased--"almost never, unless you encrypt the actual message". Thanks very much!
